Up until recently, the IT mindset was that any software product not written by Microsoft is non-standard (no seriously). This is of course is a direct carryover from Microsoft's mindset.

For PDA's, this is really a disconnect. What advantage is there for your PDA to be running the same (or similar) OS as your deskop? None, but Dell probably got loads of graft and freebies from Microsoft for thinking "correctly."

<strong>Up until recently, the IT mindset was that any software product not written by Microsoft is non-standard (no seriously). This is of course is a direct carryover from Microsoft's mindset.

For PDA's, this is really a disconnect. What advantage is there for your PDA to be running the same (or similar) OS as your deskop? None, but Dell probably got loads of graft and freebies from Microsoft for thinking "correctly."

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And that microsoft mindset stems from the IBM mindset that some IT people still have. Like the old saying goes, nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.